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museums, and scientific institutions they were accorded every hos- 

 pitality and facility for the examination and study of collections as 

 well as an opportunity to discuss anthropological and archeological 

 problems with the members of each scientific staff. 



After returning to Chicago, Henry Field kept in touch with many 

 of these Soviet scientists, who have forwarded to him, in Russian or 

 in English, summaries of their own research work or that of their 

 colleagues. In collaboration with Eugene Prostov as translator, more 

 than 50 archeological summaries have been published ^ since 1935. 



The compilation of summaries of anthropometric data obtained 

 recently by Soviet physical anthropologists has proved a far harder 

 task, but perhaps one that is no less valuable to those who study the 

 ancient and modern racial problems of Asia and their impacts on 

 America, Europe, and Africa, 



Soviet literature in the libraries of Field Museum of Natural His- 

 tory and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago was 

 examined by Eugene Prostov, who selected passages for inclusion 

 and supervised the transliterations and the spelling of place names. 



Dr. Alexander Sushko, formerly of the University of Chicago, 

 generously assisted with the translation of part of Ginzburg's anthro- 

 pometric data. 



The general arrangement of the articles, each of which must be 

 treated as a separate entity, will be found in the contents. 



Throughout the Soviet Union standardized abbreviations for 

 scientific institutions have been introduced and for this reason a list 

 must be appended. 



The following' abbreviations have been used in this report : 



AZH Antropologicheskii Zhurnal [Anthropological Jour- 

 nal. Quarterly, edited by M. S. Plisetskiij. 



GOSSTATISTIKA Gosudarstvennoe Statisticheskoe upravlenie, cur- 

 rently Tsentralnoe Statisticheskoe upravlenie [De- 

 partment of Statistics]. 



lAE Institut Antropologii i Etnografii [Institute of 



Anthropology and Ethnography of the State 

 Academy of Sciences], Leningrad. 



IIMK Institut Istorii Materialnoi Kultury, Akademiia 



Nauk [Historical Institute of Material Culture of 

 the U.S.S.R., Academy of Sciences, since summer of 

 1937; formerly GAIMK], Leningrad. 



- In the American Anthropologist, American Journal of Archaeology, Ameri- 

 can Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Semitic Languages 

 and Literatures, American Review of the Soviet Union, Antiquity, Ars Islamica, 

 Asia, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. For 

 references see p. 66, footnotes i and 2. 



